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Y2000 Is More Than a Coding Problem

by Ed Yourdon

Traditional software developers often dismiss Y2000 as a simple problem, arguing that it involves nothing more than a large number of intellectually trivial code-fixing problems. Y2000 projects don't require any systems design or requirements-definition activity, right? Yes, there is some testing to be done, the software developers acknowledge, but even that should be simple because all of the test data is concerned with the same date-related issue. Having thus convinced themselves that no difficulties will be encountered, they return to their glamorous, leading-edge technologies.

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Y2000 Is More Than a Coding Problem 30 September 1998

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